Silent Sorority • Award-Winning Writer

Is This Why We Don’t Talk About Infertility?

Featured in Medium ~~~ Humans don’t do well with emotional discomfort of any kind. This has been proven time and …

Fertility Industry Evokes Glengarry Glen Ross

For 38 years the fertility industry has sought to cultivate a caring, reassuring narrative. However, they also obfuscate and mislead …

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The New York Times Op-Ed

Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos collaborated in September 2013 with Miriam Zoll, health advocate and author of Cracked Open, to write “Selling the …

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Would You Tell Someone You Were Infertile?

There are a handful of celebrities who have been willing to divulge infertility issues, but if you didn’t succeed with pregnancy …

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The Tough Truth About Egg Freezing Perks

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the ASRM do not endorse the use of egg freezing to defer …

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When Does the Pursuit of Pregnancy Go Too Far?

The unregulated and fast-growing ‘fertility’ industry is predicated on a tantalizing pregnancy promise. But at what cost? I understand, deeply, …

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Infertility Etiquette

By Pamela Tsigdinos, a contributor to the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit mental health and wellness center for women and mothers …

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A Non-Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is one of the most emotionally difficult times of the year for women who have experienced prolonged infertility and …

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The Sobering Facts About Egg Freezing That Nobody’s Talking About

A self-proclaimed geek friend once described Silicon Valley as a place where instead of going to the movies to watch …

In the News

When Is It Time To Move Away From IVF Treatment?

The Truth About Freezing Your Eggs

Time, Inc.’s Health Magazine Names Infertility Blog Silent Sorority ‘Top 10 Health Blog’

Family Redefined by Infertility

Psychology Today: The Dark Side of Fertility Treatments

Grief Is Born When Fertility Drugs Don’t Deliver

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Is This Why We Don’t Talk About Infertility?

Here’s Why You Don’t Have To Be A Mother To Be A Loving Woman

Finally Heard: A Silent Sorority Finds Its Voice

Family Redefined by Infertility

Infertility: The Billion Dollar Business

Facing Life Without Children When It Isn’t by Choice

Infertile and Proud: The Growing Women’s Movement to Destigmatize Infertility

Interviews

Les Oubliées de la PMA » – Interview du mois

Interview: Is it Time to Hold Growing Fertility Industry to ‘Do No Harm’ Accountability?

The Road Less Traveled: A Conversation on Life Beyond Children

Surviving Infertility When Treatments Fail

Inspirational Stories

Q&A: Not-So-Silent Sorority

First Person

When Is It Time To Move Away From IVF Treatment?

Accepting Childlessness After Infertility

A Non-Mother’s Day

Featured Writing

Is This Why We Don’t Talk About Infertility?

Fertility Industry Evokes Glengarry Glen Ross

The New York Times Op-Ed

Would You Tell Someone You Were Infertile?

The Tough Truth About Egg Freezing Perks

When Does the Pursuit of Pregnancy Go Too Far?

Surviving infertility in an era when celebrity and news magazines, TV programs, Facebook pages and 'mommy blogs' routinely and glowingly share family-building successes isn't easy. In today's noisy celebration of motherhood, the voices of those unable to have children are hard to hear. That's what made Silent Sorority unusual and refreshing when it debuted in 2009. It's the first memoir about confronting infertility not written by a mother. Silent Sorority is irreverent as well as moving in relating what happens when nature and science find their limits.

Winner of the 2010 RESOLVE Choice Best Book Award and a Recommended Resource in Our Bodies, Ourselves, 2011 edition.

Outside of the physical reckoning there lies the challenge of moving forward in a society that doesn't know how to handle the awkwardness of infertility. With no Emily Post-like guidelines for supporting couples who cannot conceive, most well-intentioned people miss the mark. Silent Sorority offers an unflinching and insightful look at coming to terms with a life unexpected and navigating a path forward in an era of designer babies and helicopter parents. The memoir and blog led to Finally Heard: A Silent Sorority Finds Its Voice, released May 1, 2015.